332 EPICIMELIA. By W. Wabren. — DILOBA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 



with silvery; the yellowish streak at base of costa obsolete; beneath the silvery oval patch at end of cell a 

 faint serpentine dark transverse line ; the golden terminal border almost obsolete, but instead the silvery streak 

 before it is much larger, swollen into a blotch below, and only narrowly edged with bronzy ; a black terminal 

 line before the violet red fringe. Algeria. 



12. Genus: Epioiuielin Korh. 



Tongue well developed ; frons smooth ; palpi short, the second segment rough haired, the third short 

 and stumpy ; antennae bipectinated in both sexes, shorter in $ than ^ ; thorax roughly haired ; abdomen smooth ; 

 forewing broadly triangular with a large pale stigma ; veins 9, 10 only stalked, 7 and 8 from end of cell, 6 slightly 

 below; but veins 8 and 9 do not anastomose, and there is no areole; the cell in both wings very broad, and 

 the median vein still more abruptly upturned at extremity, in the hindwing nearly at right angles. Type E. 

 theresiae Korh. 



Ihcresiae. E- theresiae Korb (56 e). (J Forewing dull pink, a pale dull brassy yellow blotch at base, not reaching 



above median vein, its oblique outer edge dif fiise and ending near middle of inner margin ; a thick diffuse dark 

 shade oblique from apex to ^1* of inner margin, interrupted in middle; at end of and beyond the cell a large 

 leaf-shaped creamcolovired blotch tinged with yellow, the stalk resting on the discocellular, the blade extending 

 towards termen along veins 3 and 4, at each of which it is bluntly toothed ; the whole of the central triangle 

 between basal patch and outer line deeper red ; fringe deep pink beyond a fine greenish terminal line ; hind- 

 wing pale yellow, broadly tinged with orange red along imier margin, and with a sUght broMiiish cloud at end 

 of vein 2; fringe deep pinli beyond a dull green terminal hue; the J has the forewing deeper coloured, with 

 the costal edge bright pink; the hindwing wholly orange fulvous. Anatolia. The larva is reasonably suspected 

 of feeding on an Astragalus. 



13. Genus: Diloba Bdv. 



This Genus which repeatedly has been thrown about between Bombycidae and Noctuidae, does not 

 with certainty belong here. After having for some time been referred to the Acronictinae and placed close 

 to Bryophila by Staudinger and Rebel, we do not find it among the Acronictinae in Hampson's new catalogue 

 which among all systems established so far most thoroughly considers the anatomical structure; very likely 

 it will be put back into the heterogeneous group of Bombyces. Its whole Habitus is bombycoid, the body heavy, 

 head large, frons heavily clothed with thick hair and adorned in middle by a crest of hair; pa,lpi strong and 

 porrect, antennae of ^ very long and strongly bipectinate, provided at base with two tufts of hair as in Noto- 

 dontidae ; thorax long, smoothly haired ; abdomen of $ very thick and heavy. Only one species known, restricted 

 to Europe where it is very common. 



caeruleoce- D. caeruleocephala L. (491), the common 'Blue Head', resembles a species of Drymoea of the family 



pliaJa. of Notodontidae. Forewing brownish-violet, mottled with grey. Orbicular and reniform stigmata unite to 

 form a greenish-white design resembling the figure 88 and joining a costal spot of pale grey. Hindwing grey, 

 paler in 9, marked near the base with a dark dash such as we find in the majority of Notodontidae. — ab. 

 separata, separata Schidtz which occurs together with the first described form, though rather scarce, has the stigmata 

 armena. in the forewing separate, the form armena Stgr. from Asia Minor the forewings uniform grey. — Egg semi-globu- 

 lar. Larva pale whitish-green, very thick, with bluish-green head, covered throughout with dark, minute tuber- 

 cles wiiich are provided with single, long bristles. It is found from early spring until June on various deciduous 

 trees, preferably on black-thorn and fruit trees. Pupa irroratedwith blue, pupal state lasts about three months, 

 the imago emerging in fall. The latter flies at night time, and is very common throughout Europe with the 

 exception of the Polar Region, but only locally and in certain years. The reports that in some regions it has 

 increased to such an extent as to cause considerable damage are certainly greatly exaggerated. 



